WASHINGTON—Too many children and adults living with congenital heart disease (CHD) are being left behind by a system that doesn’t adequately value their care. That’s the message of a new policy statement from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) that highlights broken reimbursement models, undervalued procedures, and barriers to device innovation.  

The statement, “Economic Barriers to Interventional Cardiology Care for Adults and Children With Congenital Heart Disease and Potential Policy Solutions,” was published today in JSCAI. It calls for Medicaid payment parity, fairer valuation of CHD procedures, new compensation models, and faster pathways for pediatric device approval.  

Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.  

This is according to a new Frontiers in Science article in which researchers reveal how hybrid foods, which combine proteins from different sources, could be part of the solution.